Fr. Schall & the Poor | National Catholic Reporter

Fr. Schall & the Poor | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Nothing is obnoxious in this essay.  What is obnoxious is a Catholic Church in Latin America that loves to mingle with the more European wealthy while abandoning the poor.  While poverty can be a spiritual practice within a religious community - its meaning is a communal economy of equality within the community - with some degree of simplicity - but not necessarily destitution.  That is not what we impose on the poor however.  The poor need to be lifted up - not for their conversion - which is up to the Holy Spirit - but to education them and empower them, while fighting for them to be repaid justly for their individual efforts and for the well being of their family (which requires greater pay).